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The Pianolina

GROTRIAN Pianos
Play with the floating tones, create new atmospheric melodies and let yourself be fascinated by the charm of the Pianolina.
from Coudal

Penguin Podcasts

The Penguin Podcast is a fortnightly episode of book extracts, author interviews and features from Penguin Books UK.
Surprisingly enough, podcasts from Penguin.  The most recent edition has excerpts from novels from Zadie Smith and Naomi Alderman.  http://thepenguinpodcast.blogs.com/

BioTech Nation: Argentinian transgenic crops and Malaria

BioTech nation's newest podcast (mp3).
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Bjorn Mellin from the Argentinian firm BioSidus explains the economic reason which drove Argentina to become #2 worldwide cultivating genetically-modified crops.
Then for the BioIssue of the Week, David Ewing Duncan takes up Malaria.

French audiovisual institute offers enormous archives online

The International Herald Tribune gives an overview of the INA's new site:
Now, with double the capacity, the site is receiving about five million visits a day - 80 times more than its usual traffic. And for good reason: The sound and visual quality are superb, the range of selections is impressive, and the packaging and […]

The Wealth of Networks - Podcast

The Wealth of Networks (mp3)
Yochai Benkler, Professor of Law at Yale University, explores the effects of laws that regulate information production and exchange on the distribution of control over information flows, knowledge, and culture in the digital environment.
Professor Lawrence Lessig of Stanford Law School has written about Yochai Benkler’s book, The Wealth of Networks. He […]

Malcom Gladwell SXSW podcast

Gladwell delivering a keynote at the South by Southwest Festival in 2005.  About an hour long: mp3
Malcolm Gladwell, author, reporter and staff writer at The New Yorker, talks about his new book "Blink:Thin-Slicing, Snap Judgments and the Power of Thinking Without Thinking". He discusses how we interact with our environment and take instantaneous decisions based […]

Podcast: Newspapers in the Age of Blogs

Alan Rusbridger: editor of The Guardian
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pdf transcript available here
(Mar 16, 2006 from the Royal Society of the Arts)

iTunes U: UC Berkeley

http://itunes.berkeley.edu/
UC Berkeley is now delivering podcasts online through the iTunes U system.

The Case for Goliath: Michael Mandelbaum discussion

Seen on the Daily Show (video of the interview) a few weeks ago, Mandelbaum heads up a panel discussion on his new book. Link to the site featuring RealAudio of the discussion at Johns Hopkins University
"The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's Government in the 21st Century"
Speaker: Michael Mandelbaum, […]

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